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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION STALIN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1917-1921 BY WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN VOLUME TWO WITH A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT WORKS ON THE CIVIL WAR BY DIANE KOENKER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Guildford, Surrey Copyright © 1935 by The Macmillan Company Selected bibliography © 1987 by Princeton University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data will be found on the last printed page of this book Reissued with a new introduction, February, 1952 First Princeton Paperback printing, 1987 LCC 87-3719 ISBN 0-691-05493-2 ISBN 0-691-00815-9 (pbk.) This edition is reprinted by arrangement with Macmillan Publishing Company, a division of Macmillan, Inc. Clothbound editions of Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Paperbacks, while satisfactory for personal collections, are not usually suitable for library rebinding. Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XX THE CLASH WITH THE CZECHS AND THE DEM- OCRATIC COUNTERREVOLUTION 1 XXI THE REVOLUTION ARMS ITSELF 25 XXII THE MOST CRITICAL PERIOD 42 XXIII TERROR, RED AND WHITE 66 XXIV THE END OF THE TSARIST FAMILY 84 XXV WAR COMMUNISM 96 XXVI THE TURN OF THE TIDE AND THE GERMAN REV- OLUTION 118 XXVII DENIKIN AND THE COSSACK VENDEE 134 XXVIII ALLIED INTERVENTION 150 XXIX THE RISE AND FALL OF KOLCHAK 173 XXX THE NEW REVOLUTIONARY OFFENSIVE 206 XXXI UKRAINA, WHIRLPOOL OF PEASANT ANARCHISM 221 XXXII "RUSSIA SHALL BE GREAT, UNITED, UNDIVIDED" 242 XXXIII THE DECISIVE CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR 267 XXXIV MASS LABOR CONSCRIPTION; WAR WITH POLAND 291 XXXV THE LAST STAND OF THE WHITES 318 XXXVI THE REVOLUTION AND DAILY LIFE 335 XXXVII THE COMMUNIST PARTY: ORGANIZER OF VICTORY 359 XXXVIII THE DRIVE FOR WORLD REVOLUTION 378 XXXIX MINOR THEATRES OF REVOLUTION AND CIVIL WAR 398 XL THE CRISIS OF WAR COMMUNISM: KRONSTADT AND NEP 430 XLI THE REVOLUTION IN RETROSPECT 451 APPENDIX Documents of the Revolution, June 9, 1918-March 23, 1921 465 BIBLIOGRAPHY 505 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 525 INDEX 535 ILLUSTRATIONS Stalin Frontispiece Facing Original text of the decree creating the Red Army 26 Red sailors of the Black Sea Fleet under the command of the partisan leader Mokrovsov 122 Red troops near Kazan in the summer of 1918 122 "Brothers," by P. Skala 136 A Red Army cart used in the civil war 136 Atamans Semyenov and Kalmikov, two leaders of the White Cossacks 178 A group of Ural Red partisans 178 Nestor Makhno, anarchist guerrilla leader of the Ukrainian peasants, with members of his staff 226 Peasants greeting a White general with bread and salt 226 Stalin and Voroshilov 248 General Denikin reviewing his troops in the summer of 1919 248 Stalin reviewing the first cavalry army in 1919 270 The Soviet President, M. I. Kalinin, listening to the representations of peasants in a Ukrainian village in 1920 270 General Sergei Budenny 286 The military Revolutionary War Council and the commanding offi cers of the First Cavalry Army 294 Lenin addressing troops departing for the Polish front 294 General Baron Peter Wrangel 320 Civil war in Crimea in 1920 320 Intervention in the North in 1918 400 The presidium of the Congress of Peoples of the East held in Baku in the summer of 1920 400 VU MAPS PAGE German-Austrian occupation of Russia in 1918 9 The broken front between the Red Forces and the Checho-Slovaks and the White Russian Forces in the summer of 1918 11 Denikin's line at the time of his furthest advance 147 Advance of the Red Armies against Kolchak in the summer of 1919 193 Advance of the White Armies in the Donetz Basin and sea terri tory in the summer of 1919 243 Map of the Petrograd Region, illustrating the campaign of Yudenitch 273 Line of the front before the beginning of the Soviet-Polish campaign 299 Map of the Polish theatre of war, showing the decisive battle around Warsaw 312 Wrangel's descents in the Kuban territory in the summer of 1920 326 The Perekop operations against Wrangel 331 IX

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